Pike County Democrat, Volume 17, Number 7, Petersburg, Pike County, 24 June 1886 — Page 3

1 SERMON. the nwuurac ul uis buTIm lion" "Strong Drink or," and illustrated it ixt: Liea, e&rneth wages to holes.—rHaggal, L, 6. i: In Persia, under the Hyataspes, the people did hey made money,* but did ley were like people who which they put money, not seek is torn or eaten of

ae wny made incapable ol Sables. As fast as the coin ) end cf the sack it dropped (other. II made/no difference i wages thiy got, for they lost at has beoomo of the billions and ns of dollars in this country paid to king classes! Some of these moneys fone for honse rent, or the purchase esteads or wardrobe, or family exor the necessities of private life, or ^e comforts In old age. What has of other billions! Wasted in foolay. Wasted at the gaming table, in intoxicants. Put into a bag h a hundred holet. rather up the money that the working [Ms have spent f«ir rum during the last years and I will buy for every gman a house, and lay out for him en, and clothe his sons in broadand his daughters in silks, and stand !s front door a prancing span of sori or bays, and secure him a policy of insurance, so that the present home y be well maintained after he is dead. » most persistent;, most overpowering cpy of the working classes is intoxilug liquor. It is the Anarchist of the turies, and has loycotted and is now

^raerican labor. It Is to it a worse foe Kan monopoly and worse than associated Kpital. It annually swindles industry put of a large percentage of its earnings, pt holds o^t its blasting solicitations to the mechanic or operative on his way to work, and at the noon-spell,’and on his way home at even-tide; cn Saturday, when the wages are paid, it snatches a large part of the money that might come to the family and sacrifices it among the saloon-keepers. Within eight hundred yards of Sand Street Methodist Church, Brooklyn, it has fiftyfour saloons and is plotting now for another. Stand the saloons of this country side by side, and it is carefully estimated that they would reach from New York to Chicago. “Forward march,” says the rum power, “and take possession of the American Nation.” The rum business ts pouring its vitriolto damnable liquids do\m the throats of hundreds and thousands of laborers, and while the ordinary strikes are ruinous both to employers and employes, I proclaim a universal strike against strong drink, which, if kept up, will be the relief of the working classes and the salvation of the Nation. I will undertake to say that there is not a healthy laborer in the United States who, within the next ten years, if he will refuse all intoxicating beverage and be saving, may not become a capitalist on a small scale. Our country in a year spends $1,500,050,000 for rum. Of course the working classes do a g rent deal of this expenditure. Careful statistics show that the wage-earning classes of Great Britain expend in liquors $500,000,000 a year. Sit down and calculate. O, workingman, how much have you expended in the directions? Add it all up. Add up what your neighbors have expended, and realise that instead of answering the beck of other people you might have been your own capitalist. When you deplete a workingman's physical energy you deplete his capital. The stimulated workman gives out before the unstimiilated workman. My father said: "I became a temperate man in earlv life be cause I notioed in the harvest that, though I was physically weaker than other vrorkmen, I could hold out longer than they. They took stimulants; I took none.” A brickmaker in £ Ingland gives his experience in regard ti this matter among men in his employ. He says, after investigation : “The beerdrinknr who made the fewest bricks made 059,000; the abstainer who made the fewest bricks, 746,000. The difference in behalf of the abstainer over the indulger, 87,600.” There came a very exhausting time in the British Parliament. The session was prolonged until nearby all the members got sick or worn out. Out of 653 members only two went through ur,damaged; they were teetotallers.

" ubu hu army gee s out to me oatue me oldie? who has water or coffee in hie canteen marches eatiier and fights better than the soldier who has whisky in his canteen. Rum helps a man to fight when he has only one contestant, and that at the street corner. But when'he goes forth to maintain some great battle for God and his country, he wants no rum about him. When the Russians go to irar a corporal passes along the line and smells the breath of every soldier. If th *re be in his breath a taint of intoxicating liquor the man is sent back to the barracks, Why! He can not endure fatigue. All our young men know tht^, When they are preparing for a regatta or a ball club or for an athletic wrestling, Ahey abs tain. Our working people wilree wiser lifter awhile, and the money they fiing away on hurtful indulgence they will put into co-operative association, and so bscome capitalists. If the workingmen putu down his wages and then takes his expenties and spreads them out so they will Just equal, he is not wise. I know workingmen who are in a perfect fidget until they get rid of £heir last dollar. The following circumstance came under our observation: A young man worked hard to earn his $600 or $700 yearly; Marriage day csiqg. The bride had inherited $500 from her grandfather. She spent every dollar of it on the wedding dress. Then they rented two rooms in the thirdstory. Then the young man took extra evening employmentr-aimost exhausted with the day’s work, yet took evening employment. It almost extinguished his eyesight. Why did be add evening employment to the day employment? To get mcney. Why did he want to get money I To lay up something for a rainy day? Ho. To get his life insur'd, so drat in case-of his death hit wife would not bu a beggar? Ho. He put the extra evening work to the day work that he might ;;et cine hundred and fifty dollars to get his wife a sealskin coat. The sister of the bride heard of this achievement and wss not to be eclipsed. She was very poor and she setup working nearly all the nights for a*great while until she bought a sealskin coat. I have not of the result on that street who are on small the contagion a sealskin

my thing tor a rainy dag. I know It, bnt no are at tho daybreak of' Rational proa* purity. Soma people think it Is mean to (urn the gas low when they go ont of the parlor. They feel embarrassed if the door* bull rings before they hare the hall light* Ml. They apologise for the plain meal It you surprise them at the table. Well, it 1s mean if if is only to ptle up a miserly board. But if it be to eduoate your children, if it be to giro more help to your wife when she does not feel strong, if it be to keep your funeral day from being horrible beyond all endurance because it is to bo the disruption and annihilation of the domestic circle—It it be for that, then it is magnificent. There are those who are kept in poverty because of their own fault. They might have been well off, but they smoked or chewed up their earnings, or they lived beyond their means, while others on the* same wages and on the same salaries went on to competency. I know a man who was all the time complaining of hts poverty and crying out against rich men, while he himself keeps two dogs and chews and smokes, and is full to the chin with whisky and beer. Wilkins Mlcawber said to David Copperfleld: “Copperfleld, my boy, one pound income, twenty shillings and stzpence expenditure; result misery. But, Copperfield, my boy, one pound income, nineteen slrillings and sixpence; result, happiness.” But, O wofking men of Amerioa, take your mhrniiig dram, and your noon dram, and youi evening dram, and spend every thing youhave over for tobacco and excursions, and you insure poverty for yourself and your children for ever, if by some generous flat of the capitalists of this country, or by a new law of the Government of the United States, twenty-five por cent or fifty per cent or one hundred per cent were added to the wages of the working classes of America it would be no advantage to hundreds of thousands of them unless they stopped strong drink. Aye, until they quit that evil habit, the more money the more ruin; the more wages the more holes in the bag. The disciple of alcoholism suffers the loss of his self-respect. Just as soon as a man wake? up and finds that he is the captive of strong drink he feels demeaned. I do not care how reckless he acts. He may say: “I don’t care.” He does care. He can not look a pure man in the eye unless it is with positive force of resolution. Three-fourths of his nature is destroyed; his self-respeot is gone; he says things he would not otherwise say; he does things ho would not otherwise do. When a man is nine-tenths gone with strong drink, tbe^flrst thing he wants to do is to persuade you that he can stop any time he wants to. He can not. Tiie Philistines have bound him hand and foot, and shorn his locks, and put out his eyes, and are making him grind in the mill of a great horror. He can not stop. I will prove it. He knows that his course is bringing ruin upon himself. He loves himself. If he could stop he would. He knows that his oourse is bringing ruin upon his family. He loves them. He would step if he could. He can not. Perhaps be could three months or a year ago, not now. Just ask him to stop for a month. He oan not; he knows he can not, so he does not try. I had a friend who for "fifteen years was going down under this evil habit, He had large means. He had given thousands of dollars to bible societies and reformatory institutes of all sorts. He was very genial, very generous and very lovable, and whenever he talked about this evil habit he would say: "I can stop any time.” But he kept going on, going on, down, down, down. His family would say: “I wish you would stop.” “Why,” he would reply, “I can stop any time if I want to,” After awhile he had delirium tremens; he had it twice; and yet, after that he said: “I could stop at any time if I wanted to.”

Rum! And yet among his last utterances was: “I can stop at any time.” He did not stop it be because he *sould not stop it. Oh, there is a point in inebriation beyond which it a man goes, he can not stop! One of these victims said to a Christian man: “Sir, if I were told that I couldn’t get a drink until to-morrow night unless I had all my fingers cut off, I would say: ‘Bring the hatchet and cut them off now.* ” I have a dear friend in Philadelphia whose nephew came to him one day, and when he was exhorted about his evil habit, said: “Uncle, I can’t give it up. It there stood a cannon and it was loaded, and a glass of wine were set on the mouth of that cannon, and I knew you would fire it off just as I ctune up and took the glass, I would start, f&t I must have it.” Oh, it is a sacf thing for a man to wake up in this life and feel that he is a captive! He says: „ “I could have got rid of this once, but I can’t now. I might have lived an honorable life and died a Christian death; but9 there is no hope for me now; there is no escape for me. Dead but not buried. I am a walking oorpse. I am an apparition of what I once was. I am a caged immortal beating against the wires of my cage in this direction; beating against the cage until there is blood on the wires and blood upon my soul, yet not able «o get out. Destroyed without remedy!” , I go on and say that the disciple of rum suffers from loss of physical health. The older men in the congregation may remember that some years ago Dr. Sewell went through this country and electrified the people by his lectures, in which he showed the effects of alcoholism on the human stomach. He had seven or eight diagrams by which he showed the devastation of strong drink upon the physical system. There were thousands of people who turned back from that ulcerous sketch, swearing eternal abstinence from every thing that could intoxicate. •Gtod only knows what the drunkard suffers. Pain files on every nerve, and travels every muscle, and gnaws every bone, and burns with every flame, and stings with every poison, and pulls at him with every torture. What reptiles crawl over hiu creeping limbs 1 What fiends stand by his midnight pillow I What groans tear hiu earl What horrors shiver through his soul! Talk of the rack, talk of the Inquisition, talk of the funeral pyre, talk of the crushing Juggernaut—he feels them all at onoe.

Again, the inebriate suffer* through the lone of his home. I do not care how much he lores his wife and children; if this passion for strong drink has mastered him, he will do the most outrageous things, and if he oould not get drink in any other way he would sell his family into eternal bondage. How many homes bare been broken up In that way no one but God knows. Oh, is there any thing that will so destroy a man for this life and damn him for the life that is to come? I hate that strong drink. With all the concentrated energies of my soul I hate it. Do not tell me that a man can be happy when he knows that he is breaking his wife’s heart and clothing his children with rags. Why, thnre are on the roads and streets of this land to-day titllle children, barefooted and unkemptwant on erH&patoh of their faded dress and on every r?Mnkle of their prematurely old oounteAaneee—who would hare been In ehnrohee to-day and as well clad as you are but for the taot that rum destroyed their 1 parents and drove them into the grave. O rum, thou foe of God,' thou deupoilsr of homes, thou recruiting officer of the pit, 1 hate thee 1 > lint my subject takes a deeper tone, and that is that the unfortunate »f whom I >eak suffers from the low of tbs souhThe our bad ed, will go went there. inebrinte will feel au him. Wow.

down In the World, although h« may ha re been very poor, he ebold beg or be ebold eteal flee cents with which to get that which would slake his thirst tor a little while; but in eternity where is the rum to come from? Dives could not get one drop of water. Prom what chalice of fire will the hot Ups ot the drunkard drain his draught! No one to brew It*. No one to mix it. No one to pour it. No one to fetch it. Millions of worlds then for the dregs which the young man just now slung on the saw-dust floor of the restaurant. Millions of worlds now for the rind thrown out of the punch-bowl of an earthly banquet. Dives cried for water. The inebriate cries for rad. Oh, the deep, exhausting, exasperating, ever* lasting thirst of the drunkard in hell 1 In the future world I do not believe that it wiU be the absenoe of God tha.t will make the drunkard’s sorrow. I do hot be* lieve that it wiU be the absence of light. I do not believe that it will be the absence of holiness. I think it wiU be the absence of rum. Oh, Look not upon the wine when It Is red, when It moreth Itself aright In the oup, tor at the last It blteth like a serpent and It stlngeth like an adder. It is about time that we have another woman’s crusade Uke that which swept through Ohio ten or twelve yearn ago. With prayer and song the women went into the groggeries, and whole neighborhoods, towns and cities were redeemed by their Christian heroics. Thirty women cleared out the rum traffic from a village of 1,000 inhabitants. If thirty women surcharged of the Holy Ohost could renovate a town of a thousand, three thousand consecrated women, resolved to give themselves no peace until this crime was extirpated from this city, oould in six months dear out three-fourths of the grog-shops of Brooklyn. If there be three thousand women now in this city who will pnt their hands and their hearts to the work, I will take the oontract for driving out all these moral nuisances from the city—at any rate three-fourths of them—in three months. If, when that host of three thousand consecrated women is marshaled, there be no on- to lead them, then, a* a minister of the Most High God, I will offer to take my position at the front of the host, and I will cry to them: "Come on, ye women of Christ,, with your songs and your prayers 1 Some of you take the enemy’s right wing and some the left wing. Forward! The Lord of Hosts is with us; the God of Jacob is our refuge! Down with the dram-shops!” But not waiting for those mouths of hell to close, let me advise the working and the 4 business classes, and all classes, to stop strong drink. While Idedared some time ago that there was a point beyond whioh a man could not stop, I want to toll you that while a man cannot stop in hi» own strength, the Lord God, by His grace, can help him to stop at any time. I was in a room in New York where there were many men who had been reclaimed from drunkenness. I heard their testimony, and for the first time in my life there flashedi out a truth I never understood. They said: “We were victims of strong drink. We tried to give it up, but always failed; but somehow since we gave our hearts to Christ, he has taken care of us.” I believe that the time will soon come when the grace of God will show Its power not only to save man’s soul, but his body, and reconstruct, purify, elevate and redeem It. I verily bdleve that, although you feel grappling at the roots of your tongues an almost omnipotent thirst, if yoji will give your heart to God He will help, yon by Hie grace to conquer. Try it. It is your last chance. I have looked off upon the d esolation. Sitting in onr religious assemblages there are a good many people in awful peril, and judging from ordinary circumstances, there is not one chance iin five thousand that they will get clear of it. There are men in my congregation froni Sabbath to Sabbath of whom I must make the remark, that if thev do not I

change their coarse, within ten year s they will, as to their bodies, lie down in drunk* ards’ graves; and as to their souls lie down in a drunkard’s perdiction. I know this is an awful thing to say, but I can not help saying it. Oh, beware! You have not yet been captured. Beware! Whether the beverage be poured in golden chalice or pewter mug, in the foam at the top, in white letters, let there be spelled out to your soul: “Beware.” When the books of judgment are open and ten million drunkards come up to get their doom, I want you to bear witness that t, this morning, in the fear of God and in the love for your soul, told you, with all affection and with all kindness, to beware of that which has already e:terted its influence upon your family, blowing opt some of its lights—a premonition of the blackness and dkrkness forever. Oh, if you oould only hear this morning, Intemperance with drunkards’ bones drumming on the head of the liquor cask the “D ead March” of immortal souls, me* thinks the very glance of a wine-cup would make you shudder, and the color of the liquor would make you think of the blood of the soul, and the foam on the top of the cup would remind you of the froth on the maniac’s lip; and you would go home from this service and kneel down. and pray God that, rather than your children should become oapttves of this evil habit, you would like to carry them out some bright spring day to the cemetery and put them away to the last sleep, until at the oall of the south wind the flowers would come up alii over the grave—sweet prophecies of the resurrection ! God has a balm for such a wound; but what flower of comfort ever grew on the blasted breath of a drunkard’s nepul* chert CEADCMl new A OT A Tlrtu

A Trathfttl Man’e Recollections of the Pennsylvania Cyclone In 1813. [Philadelphia Press.] Stories of the recent cyclone In Ohio are coming in quite freely, but they do not approach the marvelous stories of the tornado that swept up the valley of the roaring Codorus, in York County, in the cold spring of 1842. After the storm we speak of one farmer found that his well had. been pulled up by the roots and was hanging on the limbs of a white oak tree four miles away. A cellar belonging to one of his neighbors was split in two, one-half of it being blown through a stone-quarry and the other half turned up endwise against a hay-stack in the adjoining county. A flock of geese were completely stripped of their feathers by the wind, and a driedapple pie was blown through the side of a school-house terrifying the teacher and scholars, besides ruining a large map of the grasshopper districts of Kansas. A large barn containing thirteen tons cf hay was lifted off its foundations and curried six miles down the valley, where it settled down to squarely that the doors could be opened without prying them. The wind blew the tails off six Durham cows, nnd a Berkshire pig weighing two hundred pounds was blown completely through his skin, the hide remaining in a standing position and preserving an expression of naturalness that deceived many visitors. The boundary lines of several town ships were bent all out of shape, so that they looked like a curled-hair mattress on a hot griddle, and the air was blown so completely out of the valley that people had to go up on the hills when they wanted to breathe. A Rival at the White Lady. lUhleago News.) A large rat is said to appear in one of the wards of a Pittsburgh hospital s. few hours before the death of a patient. It will run nnder the cot of the doomed person, and after ruminating th«re a tew minutiae without any demonstration whatever it will run away and disappear. In ovary instance the person occupying the cot has died within thirty-slx hours after ti e ocuiirrenoe. This has caused such consternation that many efforts have he—

USEFUL AND SUGGESTIVE. ] —We have trotting horses to perfection. Why should we not pay more attention to walking horses?—N. E. Farmer. —Seed com should be changed every four or five years, or at least new kinds mixed with the local sorts.—Trow ZVmcs. —Too long pulls on a muddy road often hurt the wind of a horse. When they begin to breath heavily it is time to givo them a “blow.”—Cleveland Leader. —A Texas farmer says that three good bull dogs roaming the yards at night will do more to keep a man honest than all the talking in the world. —Cattle plagues, like a hog Cholera, always follow after and never go before loose methods. There is always a demand for the best—Prairie Farmer. —Remember, it is the appearance of goods that sells them. Nice, large, fat, plump, white turkeys, ducks, chicks or geese always bring outside prices— Albany Journal. _ —At the Canadian Experimental st* tion it has been determined that feeding timothy without much clover had a tendency to dry the flow of milk in winter. —Canaries in a wild state even surpass in loudness and clearness the song of domesticated birds, but lack the numerous acquired strains of the latter. —Cincinnati Times. —Stinginess in farming generally defeats the object for which it is practiced; yet there are many farms fairly well managed except for the stinginess that marks every practice— Western Sural —The free use of clover seed and keeping of farm stock enables farmers to maintain land in good condition for ordinary cropping without purchasing commercial manures.—Field and Farm. — No one has such an excellent chance to have a beautiful lawn about the house as the farmer. He can surround his house with a much prettier green carpet than the average suburban resident can.—Exchange. —Fish Croquettes: Remove all the skins and bones from a pound of any cold fish, chop fine, mix with equal parts of mashed potatoes, season highfy with salt and pepper, and one new egg, and then form jn little balks, roll in flour and fry very brown in boiling lard. Serve hot with walnut pickle.—Philadelphia Call. —Beef Collops: Any cold meats will answer for collops. Cut in pieces and pound flat. Sift flour over and fry brown in butter. Then lsly in a stew Ean, cover with brown gravy, mince alf an onion fine, add a lump of butter the size of an egg, a little pepper and salt. Stew slowly. Serve not with pickles or sliced lemon.—Boston Budget. delightful fabrics. Pretty Cotton Goods and Handsome Chine and Glaee Silks. In new cotton toilets, combinations oC two fabrics are very prettily arranged, and the fashion affords many ways for remodeling a last summer’s dress, or of making use of new materials whose patterns separately are “short length.” For instance, the plaited skirt of pink satteen or ehambray may be finished at the foot with a broad facing of pink and white gingham, with waist and sleeve trimmings to match;or a pale blue organdie may nave an underskirt of blue and pink or blue and eream striped French lawn. Dainty imported dresses for summer wear at the seaside show pretty tinted chambrays, organdies and other fancy goods, with skirts of striped materials, which are laid in broad plaits, fbtx afrinna nf tKn tiua fok>*inc

torn in strips and run together. The jacket and full skirt in the back are made of the plain goods, with Figaro vest collar and sash drapery of the stripe. Stripes for more expensive evening toilets are made of wide lace insertion and bands of grenadine, silk canvas or etamine sewed together. The prettiest fabrics displayed at present are the chine and glace silks. They are both picturesque and artistic, many . of them in the style of the gay Pompadour satteens, only softer and more dainty in coloring. Large flowers of delicate tints are strewed rather far 'apart on silk of exquisite texture, the edges of the flowers shading off into the silk. The silks themselves are made in all tints imaginable, faint, delicate colors being in the majority, such as dove, pale water green, tea rose, salmon beige, creamy pinks with a dash of yellow in them, blue in various shades, eoru in tones and semi-tones; in fact, the silks are dyed to suit all tastes and complexions, as there are also chine silks with wallflower backgrounds, deep garnets, marine blues, brocaded with dark red figures, etc. What delightful fabrics for teas, garden parties ana the like! In a dove-gray ohine silk brocaded with pink flowers, a flapping Leghorn hat trimmed with blaclc velvet ribbon and blush roses, and a pair of long buttonless pearl-gray undressed kid gloves, a pretty girl may look as charming and picturesque as a Watteau shepherdess, or as Dolly Varden herself, at an incredibly small cost, —N. Y. Evening Post.

THE LAMP CRAZE. Beautiful Mediums of Illumination Not* at the Height of Popularity. ..-.One mast be a woman to appreciate the loveliness of a light that betrays no secrets, uncovers no blemishes and kindly shadows the defects of toilet, complexion and time. Indeed it is a proverb with the hypercritical of the female gender that she is indeed hagfish who does not look well in a lampt room. , These beautiful mediums of illumination may be bronze, repousse-metal', lesmoges, Dresden, out-crystal, chin^or simple pottery, glazed or painted. The lamp body may be almost any shape, size or material that will hold oil, out the trimmings must be and are always novel, artistic and serviceable. Shades come in all tints and metallic compositions of plain, corrugated and decorated surface. About the edge is gathered a ruffle of lace which may cost nine oents, and not infrequently does cost five dollars. The frill varies from two to five inches in width and has the effect of softening the light. Another craze consists in shade dressing — that is, in arranging a transparency for the shade proper. Lace-paper, g^uze and bobmette have been succeeded by coverings composed of linen roses, ostrich plumes, pon-pons and milk-weed balls. A drapery of scarlet tips drawn over a bell-shaped dome never fails to call forth comment and it is not easy to devise any thing prettier than a shade of pink linen or tissue on a parlor lamp. For real use, that is, reading or work, a green globe is best, and the color may be used as an effective back-ground for lace edging and a yellow or pink bow. Pink shades are pretty for color effect, but should not be placed on a center table unless draped, as the color is too hard for the ordinary eye. Maroon lights unll and looks better, and there are yellows, blues, saffrons, purples and mixtures, which, when porcelain lined, are pleasing to the eye and have a wonderful brightening effect on a dark or subdued corner. In the homes along the fashionable avenues of own city these beautiful lamps are ’ in the windows, to which they an indescribable fascination, ' ite lace

FEMININE FINERY; rhe Startling BUI Presented to a Tonne Husband In the Quaker City. (Philadelphia Record.] Hiss Nettle Danzig, a dressmaker and Fashionable modiste, yesterday brought suit against a well-known young man sbout town to recover a balance of $1,481 on a bill of $1,573.75 charged against him by his wife between August 22, 1885 and January 15,1888. A copy of the plaintiff’s book of original entries was filed in Common Pleas Court No. 8 yesterday, which gives an interesting statement of the Value of the feminine finery. The following is the account: 1385. Aug. 21—Two pairs silk hose.]?.50 Aug. 21—One pair of corsets.. 7.30 Aug. 28—Ono alpaca dress..... go.no Atig. 23—One wrap..... 10000 Sept. 4—One chemise.. .. 12.00 Sept. 5—One pink dressing sacque..,, 31.50 Sept. 5—Two pairs of silk hose. 20.no Sept. S3—One emb. robe de chambre. 105.00 Sept. 2S—One cloth costume. Iso.oo Oct. 0—Two bonnets. 83.00 Oct. 18—Two silk vests.....;.. 9.0C Oct. 16—Two pink Jersey vests........ 21.00 Oct. 17—One moire wrapper .... 100.00 Oct. 17—One black and cardinal velvet bat... 15.M Oct. 17.—One P*lr white satin corsets 8.51 Oct. 19— One velvet wa'st and skirt.. 1C0.C0 Oct. 19—One pair corsets... 8.50 Oct. 21—One Jersey. 75.00 Oot. 21-One corset cover.. 18.00 Oct. 21—One dog collar.. 7.30 Nov. 20—Two night-gowns...... 22.00 Dec. 15—Four skirts. 21.00 Dec. 28—Making a white dress, gold balls, satin, eto,........ 65.25 Dec. 26—Two velvet hats. 24.00 Deo. 31—One opera cloak.. 400.00 1886. Jan. 4—One corset . 7.50 Jan. 12—One opera bonnet.. 30.00 Jan. 15—One riding habit. 90.00 Total...$1,575.75 A Trout Jdyaterj [Forest and Stream.] One of the most prominent dairymen of Orange County, New York, has a spring on his farm in which for years he has kept a fine brook trout. The dairyman is a most upright and conscientious man, and was grieved to get the following note from a New York man: “The trout you sent me in one of the cans of milk was Tery fine, thanks; but wasn’t that a qneer way to send it?” When the dairyman, explains it to his neighbors that the trout jumped into the can they grin and say, “Oh, yes,” and this is what puzzles him and us. Perhaps the cow drank the trout; who knows? Crazed By Cocaine. [Elmira (N. Y.) Special.] Dr. A. S. Hazen, of Sbarpsville, Pa., and his daughter caused a sensation at the Delayan House the other morning. They yelled, kicked the furniture about in their adjoining apartments, and caused such a disturbance that the police werS called in. Dr. Hazen and daughter were found to be slaves to cocaine. Four men forcibly removed them to the hospital. About a year ago Dr. Hazen began a series of experiments with hypodermic injections to cocaine, practicing upon himself and daughter until both are now raving maniaqs. The Hazens are the most prominent people in Sbarpsville. An Earl Off for Some Fun. [St. Louis Globe-Democrat.] The Earl of Fingal, Ireland, was registered at the Southern yesterday. The noble Earl was mnch surprised when a reporter sent up his card. “I only came over for a bit of shooting, you know,” lie protested, “and I can not see where it will interest the masses at all, you know.” “Where do you expect to find this shooting, my Lord?” “Why, around San Francisco, of course. I am told that big game is plenty all around the bloody place, you know, and I have brought a brace of fowling pieces that would kill an elephant, ba Jove!”

"Hall’s Hair Renewer keeps my hair in good condition.”—Mrs. S. H. Scott. Stoddard, N. H. Ayer’s Ague Cure is a purely vegetable compound, and is tree from dangerous drugs. When a girl changes beaus does she renew her youth!—Burlington Free Frees. It depends on the age of the new beau.—C'Aitaffo Tribune. , 3 month’s treatment for 50c, Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh. Sold by druggists. THE MARKETS. Nxw York, June 81,1886. .5 4 60 CATTLE—Native Steers, COTTON—Middling. FLOUlt—Good to Choice, WHEAT—No. 2 Red. CORN—No. 2...'.. OATS—Western Mixed.... PORK—New Mess.. _ ST. LOUIS. COTTON—Middling..... BEEVES-Good to Choice.... __ Fair to Medium.... HOGS—Common to Select.... SHEEP—Fair to Choice. FLOUlt—Patents... _ Medium to Straight WHEAT-No. 2 Red Winter... CORN-No. 2 Mixed. . - OATS—No. 2. RYE—No. 2. 54 a tobacco—Lugs.. 3 25 a _ Leat—Medium— 5 50 a HAY—Choice Timothy. 11 00 a 11 50 BUTTER—Choice Dairy....... 12 a 13 0 00 a 4 80 a s 80 0 s 00 a 4 45 a 3 00 a 76)4® 30)4« SJ4 5 25 4 05 4 30 4 25 4 75 4 20 78)4 31 27 55 6 50 8 50 8>i« v.: "32 6)4® a 4 00 4 00 3*00 3 50 4 40 EGGS—Fresh. PORK—New Mess........ BACON-Clear Rib. LARI)—Prime Steam... WOOL—Fine to Choice. CHICAGO CATTLE—Sh Ipplng... HOGS—Good to Choice. SHEEP—Good to Choice. FLOUR—Winter. Patents...... WHEAT—No. 2 Spring.. CORN—No. 2....... OATS—No. 2 White. PORK—New Mess...... 8 80 KANSAS CITY. CATTLE—Shipping Steers.... HOGS—Sales at... WHEAT-No. 2. CORN-No. 2. OATS—No. 2.,. NEW ORLEANS. FLOUlt—High Grades. 3 90 ® CORN—White. 48 a OATS—Choice Western. 85>4a HAY- -Choice.... 15 50 0 PORK—New Mess. .... a BACON—Clear ltlb. 6)4® COTTON—Middling. a LOUISVILLE. WHEAT—No. 2 Red. a COU N—No. 2 Mixed. 35ii a OATS—No. 2 Mixed....,. a PORK—Mess. .... a BACON—Clear Rib. a COTTON—Middling. a 9 00 6)4 514 34 5 50 4 32)4 4 80 4 45 4 71 7214 S4 27)4 8 85 4 25 8 60 54 25 22 5 75 4 OO 60 26 24 5 25 49 16 00 9 50 814 75 36 29 K 9 75 6)4 sit

It Won’t Bake Bread In other words, we do not claim that Hood’s Sarsaparilla will do Impossibilities. We tell 70a plainly what It has done, and submit proofs from sources of unquestioned reliability, and ask you frankly If you are suffering from any disease or affection caused or promoted by Impure blood or low state of the system, to try Hood’s Sarsaparilla. Our experience warrants us In assuring you that you will not be disappointed In the result. “ I haTe taken Hood’s Sarsaparilla for dyspepsia, which 1 have had for the last nine or ten years, suffering terribly. It has now entirely cured me.” MBS. A. Norton-, Chicopee, Mass. “After suffering many years with kidney complaint, I was recommended by my pastor, Rev.J. p. Stone, to try Hood's Sarsaparilla. It has done me more good than anything else." Edwin a Cob eh: n, Dalton, N. H. “My wife thinks there Is nothing like Hood’s San saparilla, and we are never without It In the house.* T. H. lATUUR, Syracuse, N, Y. Hood’s Sarsaparilla BOM by all druggists. II; six for B. Prepared by 0. L HOOD A C0„ Apothecaries, Lowell, Mass. 100 Doses One Dollar . W. L. DOUGLAS perfect fit, equals any S ranted. Take none uni VS.00 Shoe. Warranted.

Storm Signals. As the coming ot a great storm lsheraMeJ oy the display ot cautionary signals, ao to she approach Of that dread and fatal diabase, Consumption of the Lunga usually Announced in advance by pimples, blotetfes, sruptions, ulcers, glandular swellings, and kindredoniwurd manifestations of th(Mi*» ternal blood poison, which, if not promptly expelled from the system, attacks the felicate tissues of the lungs, causing them to ulcerate and break down. Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery’’ is the great remedy for this, as for all diseases having their origin in bad blood. It improves the appetite and digestion, increases nutrition and builds up the wasted system. A base-ball player In New Jersey la named Spuyder. He ought to be a good man for the outfield, where most of the go.—Boston Herald. Ir bilious, or suffering from Impurity of blood, or weak lungs, andfearof consumption (scrofulous disease of the lungs), take Dr. Pierce’s “Golden Medical Discovery,” and it will cure you. By druggists. A gushing young lady calls flirting the “mash”-ionaI game. Borne of the young men who engage in it ofteu go “out on a fly” if the girl’s father witnesses the gam* —H. Y. Hn 0. • Young or middle-aged men, suffering from nervous debility or kindred affections, should address with 10 cents ia stamps for large treatise, World’s Dispensary Medical Association, Buffalo, N. Y. Croquet was said to beget quarreling, and there is a deal of racket about lawn tennis.—Boston Commercial Bullet ui. i Use Instead of Unwholesome Cosmetics, Glenn’s Suli-hur Soap, which purifies and beautifies the Skin. Hill’s Hair and Whisker Dvb, Black or Brown, 50c. A man, as well as a lobster, is apt to turn very red when he gets into hot water.— Troy Times. “ As good as represented," is what every body says of Frazer’s Axle Grease, No, Ajax, the rooster is not a spring flower, although he is a crocus.—Life BROWN’S BITTERS Combining IKON with PUBE VEGETABLE TOXICS, quickly and completely CLEANSES and ENRICHES THE BLOOD. Quicken* the action of the Liter and Kidneys. Clean tha complexion, makes the thin smooth. It does not injure the teeth, cause headache, or produce coa-stipation-ALL OTHEB IRON MEDICINES DO. Physicians and Druggist* everywhere recommend it. Miss Ai.iciT M. Tisdale. Gallatin, Mo., says: “Three ye*rs ago I suifered terribly from blood gnsoning. being confined to my bed for five months. rown's Iron Bitters greatly Lenefated me, and I cheerfully recommend it.’* . , Mns M. Wells, 808 N. Jefferson Ave.. St Louis. Mo., says: “I have used Browns Iron Bitters for the blood, and also for congestion of the kidneys with great benefit.** _ . . MRS. D. M. Hoyt, Morris. 111..,ws: “I have used Brown’s Iron Bitters for Impure Blood with the best results, and I cheerfully recommend It. MR. Wm Helfuich, East St. Louis IU , • ~ ~ ’'litters to purify the blood with used Brown's Iron Bitl . most satisfactory results." „ . . . Mis. K. W. Garrett. Little Rock. Ark., saya: “ Brown’s Ir<*n Bitters entirely cured me of Impure Blood and Disease of the Kidneys.’* Genuine has above Trade Mark and crossed red lines on wrapper. Take uo oilier. Made only by CHEMICAL CO., BALTIMORE, MD. I CURE FITS! When 1 say euro l Uo not mean merely to stop them lor .. - „ay~euro i Uo not mean merely to a time and then havo them return again, I mean a radical cure. I have made the disease of FITb, EPILEP&x or FALLING SICKN ESS a llfo-loug study. I warrant my remedy to cure the worst cases Because others have failed is no reason for not now receiving a cure. Send M once for a treatise and a Free Bottle of my infallible remedy. Give Express and Post Otllce. It costa you nothing for a trial, and I will cure you. Address Dr. H. G. BOOT, 183 Pearl 8t, New York. ssoo^REWRRDmff to any person that ean furnish an Automatic Swinging Straw Stacker that can do better work t han the IMPERIAL STACKER that we are building. Send toe circular and price list which will be mailed free. All are wax* ranted to do good work or no sale. NEWARK MACHINE C0M Columbus, 0. THE BEST IN .. 61 u THE WORLD.

CT Write for prices. FAR MER8, ATTENTION ! If there is no deafer in your town selling these wagons, write to Factory for Wholesale Prices. La Belle Wagon Works, Fond du Lac, Wis. FREE FARMS in IaTluI The most Wonderful Agricultural Park in America. Surrounded by prosperous mining and manufacturing i. FARMER’S PARADISE! Magnificent crop* raised in 1835. THOUSANDS OF ACRES OF GOVERNMENT LAND, subject to pre-emption* homestead. Landsforsale to actual settlers at 13.00per Acre. Long Time. Park irrigated by immense canals. Cheap railroad rates. Every attention shownsettlera. For maps, pamphlets, etc., address Colorado Lakp * Loan Co., Opera House Block, Denver. Colo. Box,259Ql r r MANUFACTURERS OF - Mi «T 5 .WEEKS PATENT COMBINATION BEAM. W — ’’^U.S.STANDARD SCALES a No Rope to Cut Off Horses’ Manes Celebrated “ECLIPSE** HALTEH and BRIDLE Combined, can not be slipped by any horse. Saqi- -*- -rtof the U.S. pie Halter toany c free, on receipt of HI. Sold by all Saddlery, Hardware and Harness Dealers. Special discount to thr' Trade. U^Scnd for Price-List.1 - -r,N.Y. J.C. Lisuthousk, Rochester. 1

toned and most durable In the world. Warranted to stand inany yonr nearest dealer for them. Illustrated catalogues mailed free by the manufacturers, - LYON &. H EALY.162State St. Chicago. Ill ■ Piso’s Remedy for Catarrh is the I Best, Easiest to Use, and Cheapest. ^ffi CATARRH ■ Also good for Cold in the Head, Headache, Hay Fever, <fcc. 50 cents. | each for New and PerW arraiited’flve ?eai5? or? tr ml if desired. Buy direct and save 315 to 335. Organs given as premiums. Write for FREE circular with 1.000 testimonials from every Snsite. GEORGE PAYNE & CO., 48 W. Monroe St., Chicago. NEEDLES, SHUTTLES, REPAIRS, For all Sewing Machines. Standard Goods Only; sid To? whorls?1 list. BlklockM'f'qCo* 80y Locust st.,St. Louis ,Mq* inOO Hollars or less will start you fn bust ■ VWness and also secure for you a monopoly by U. 8. Government for the territory acquired. State, County. Township and Individual rights sold by the Carbonized Stone and Marble Co.. La Missouri. Kansas and Nebraska. Address: THK<L UURTZ, 005 West Fifth street, Kansas City, Me. JAMS, JELLY, OPIUM ; t uome. correspondence solicited and free trial of cur; sent honest investigators. Thr Human* Rbmrdy Company, Lafayette, lad. SNBW LAWS; Officers* pay front commissions; Heaertera roller* • - ——on* and increase; experience 30 years* ■success or no fee. Write for circulars ana law* A. W. MoCOBMICK 6 SON, ClsciAnatL Ohii OPIUM Btorphln* H.hlt Cared la 1* 3,•* A DAT. Samples worth SI.SIP FKEh. Lines not under the horse's feet. Writ# MUW8HS BART, KKKN HOLDS, m snij ll\ • ■ Pilules, positire core for flUII I O | never falls. Di.C.O. Moore, N.I.CityV HILLS loss"

WOODS & CANATSEY, (Successors to Fleming <fc McCarty) PROPRIETORS OF Star Livery, Feed and Sale Stables, CORNER FIFTH AND WALNUT STREETS, PETERSBURG. First-Class Busrxtea and Safe Horses for the public at reasonable prices. Horses boarded by the day or week. Give this firm your patronaze, and yon will receive (air treatment. The well-known hostler, Ai. Eaton, will be foqnJ always on ha ul. . ADAIR! . : '.'jV - ' i Men’s Furnishing Goods, 8tt, Collar, Cite, Hosier;, Unierwear, Etc.. j 7 - QUALITY, STYLE AND SIZES TO SUIT ALL ^Prices Guaranteed the Lowest, \ Wedding Outfits and Shirts to Order MY LEADING SPECIALTY. *F ■ . A. JO J&l. X Jfcrt 9 131 Main Street, Corner Second, Evansville. J. W. ADAMS, M. D. McCRILLUS ADAMS. ADAMS db SON, Can now bo found in their elegant new Business House on the corner of Eighth and Mala Streets, and have one of the handsomest stores tn the State Their Stock of Drugs is New and Complete, And thoy guarantee satisfaction to all their customers. They Invite special attention to their splendid assortment of new and elegant styles in Wall JPapep, Window Shades, • And their Superior Brands of sOILS AXD; MIXED PAINTS. THE BEST BRANDS OF CIGARS AND TOBACCO. CALL AND SEE US. n. s ADAMS & SON, - - Petersburg, Ind.

NEW FURNITURE STORE! This Arm has opened a large stock of New Furniture, all the latest styles hi Bateuls, Wartota, Sofas, Clairs, Brans, tail Cases, Tables, Cafes Our goods are ail new—no old stock to select from. Our place of business Is at Kings ll Stand, where wc can be found selling as cheap as any house In the country. We al e n a full stock of UXDEKTXKEES’ supplies CALL AND JtBE US. E. I?. KING, - - Petersburg, Ind, !_I___ii: EUGENE HACK. , ANTON SIMON. -Proprietors of— : Y •'4 \ a THE EACLE BREWERY, VINCENNES, INDIANA, Furnish the Best Article of Beer thqi Market Affords and soicit orders fromall dealers 151 Jar BOTTLE OR KEG BEER SUPPLIED TO FAMILIES. On Sale at All Saloons. ISAAC T. WHITE. Fit ED’K H. BURTON. MARSHAL C. WHITE. ILBLL.ER tfc WHITE, Wholesale Druggists AND DEALERS IN Paints, Oils, Dye Stuffs, Window Glass • 1 ' \ - | ; • AND SURGICAL INSTRUMENTS. No. 105 Main Street, - - - Evansville, Ind.

1884. TUB 1884. OSBORN BROTHERS Wave removed to fhair elcjwtNew Building on Main street, "where they have a large ana splendid line of BOOTS AND SHOES, For Men, Women and Children. We keep R. L. Stevens’ and Emmerson’s brands of Fine Shoes. v Petersburg, Indiana. EGER & BRO., ___ MERCHANT TAILORS, Petersburg, Indiana, "ztri Their Large Stock ef late Styles of Piece GooJs, Consisting of tho very best Saltings and Perfect Fits and Styles Guaranteed. Prices